Emma Nelle Davis

Emma Nelle Davis Mrs. Emma Nelle Davis, 81, of Bartlesville, died at 7:17 A.M. on Monday, March 24, 2014 at the St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. Funeral services for Mrs. Davis will be held at 10 A.M. Saturday, March 29, 2014 at the First Christian Church in Langley, Oklahoma with Pastor Joel Rutherford officiating. Graveside services will be held at 2 P.M. Saturday at the Mt Hope Cemetery in Independence, Kansas directed by the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory. Mrs. Davis was born in Aurora, Colorado on August 30, 1932 to Charles L. and Gladys E. (Givens) Daniel. She grew up and received her education in southeast Kansas and graduated from high school at Independence, Kansas. She attended Independence Junior College where she earned a degree while employed with a photographer in Independence. She moved to Bartlesville and was employed with Frank Griggs Photography until beginning her employment with Phillips Petroleum Company. She was employed in the mapping and charting in the seismic group until her retirement in 1993. Following her retirement she attended LPN training at Kansas, Oklahoma where she graduated at the head of her class, as well as her initial medical training at Afton and Jay, Oklahoma. She was employed at a nursing home in Grove, Oklahoma for five years until her second retirement. She was married to Joe Allen Davis on June 7, 1959. They made their home in the Bartlesville area since that time as well as a part time home in Disney, Oklahoma. She was a member of the Town & Country Christian Church in Bartlesville and the First Christian Church in Langley. She liked to fish and water ski. Mrs. Davis is survived by her husband, Joe A. Davis of Bartlesville, one son, Joel Daniel Davis and wife Angelique Monet of Bartlesville, one sister, Claudine Anderson of Topeka, Kansas, two brothers, Charles Daniel and wife Linda of Bartlesville and James Daniel and wife Janet of Gray Summit, Missouri, and three grandchildren, Randy Davis, Christina Davis and Nathaniel Lynch. She was preceded in death by her parents, a sister, Evelyn Deater and a son, Christopher Allen Davis in 1973. PDF Printable Version

Emma Nelle Davis

August 30, 1932 - March 24, 2014